Artist Research Project

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Balla, Giacomo - (1871-1958) Italian Futurist painter and teacher.His work is interesting for its various solutions to the problem of kinetic motion.Bartholdi, Fredeeric Ausgute- (1834-1904) French sculptor who was famous for his creation of the statue of Liberty.Bearden, Romare – (1914-) An African-American artist born in North Carolina.Especially known for his collage-style images of the black urban experience.Benton, Thomas Hart – (1889-1975)American genre painter and muralist, leader of the regionalist painters of the American scene.His love of the grass-roots American life is expressed in his paintings.Calder, Alexander – (1898-1976) American sculptor noted for invention of the mobile, a type of balanced sculpture suspended from a central point easily set into motion.Cassatt, Mary – (1845-1927) Generally considered America’s most famous woman painter, especially well known for her paintings of mother and child.She studied and exhibited with the Impressionists in France during the late nineteenth century.Catlett, Elizabeth – (1919-) Contemporary African-American Sculptor and Printmaker.Cezanne, Paul – (1839-1906) French Post-Impressionist whose work led to important developments in twentieth-century art.Chagall, Marc – (1887-1985) Russian-born painter. Well known for his art devoted to the Russian and Jewish subjects of his youth.Da Vinci, Leonardo – (1452-1519) Italian artist well known for his paintings and inventions.His accomplishment in many areas makes him one of the greatest geniuses of all time.Dali, Salvador – (1904-1989) Spanish-born painter best known for his surrealistic style of painting.Degas, Edgar- (1834-1917) French artist who painted largely genre scenes such as the ballet dancers and people doing daily chores.Deloney, Jack – (1940-) Southern watercolorist born in Alabama.Hanson, Duane- (1925–1996) American sculptor noted for super-realistic figures of everyday people. Harnett, William- (1848-1882) Popular American painter of the late nineteenth century. Best known for his trompe-l’oeil still lifes.Hepworth, Barbara- (1903-1975) English sculptor noted for biomorphic forms.Homer, Winslow- (1836-1910) American painter noted for his realistic genre paintings.Newspaper artist during the Civil War.Hopper, Edward- (1882-1967) American realistic genre painter.Houdon, Jean-Antoine- (1741-1828) Most celebrated French sculptor of the eighteenth century noted for bust of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Johns, Jasper – (1930 -) American painter best known for his Pop Art paintings that incorporated such images as letters, umbers, flags, targets into his work.Johnson, William Henry- (1901-1970) African American painter noted for depicting African-American folk-inspired paintings.Kandinsky, Wassily – (1866-1944) Russian-born non-objective artist whose work is associated with geometric forms, spontaneous movement, and color.Klee, Paul (1879-1940) Swiss artist whose art is known for his fantasy and free-form quality.Lawrence, Jacob- (1917-)African-American painter who used strident color and powerful design to depict the social problems and the aspirations of the African-American in Harlem and the South.Lee, Doris- (1905-)Contemporary American painter of humorous genre scenes.Lichtenstein, Roy – (1923-1997) An American painter and a member of the Pop Art Movement of the 1960’s.He was known for his paintings of everyday objects, such as hamburgers and comic strips, often giant in scale. Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb- (1816-1868) German- American painter noted for historical paintings Magritte, Renee- (1898-1967) Belgian Surrealist Painter.Matisse, Henri- (1869-1954) French artist how became leader of a group called the Fauves (wild beasts).He used bright colors and decorative all- over patterns.Michelangelo- (1475-1564) His full name was Michelangelo Buonarroti (boo-oh-nair-ROW-tee).Italian Renaissance artist who considered sculpture to be his greatest talent, yet his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in considered to be one of the greatest achievement in the world of art.Monet, Claude- (1840-1926) French painter whose work represents the style of art called Impressionism.His painting Impression-Sunrise gave rise to the name of this style of painting.Mondrian, Piet – (1872-1944) A Dutch artist noted for paintings that consist of primary colors with horizontal and vertical lines.Moore, Henry- (1898-1986) British abstract sculpture noted for his simplified outdoor figurersMoses, “Grandma” – (Anna Mary Robinson) (1860-1961)American Folk Artist.Munch, Edvard – (1863-1944) Norwegian Painter.One of the forerunners of Expressionism.His Major them dealt with love, fear and death.“Mose T”- (1910-)Contemporary Alabama folk artist.O’Keefe, Georgia- (1887-1986) American painter best known for her large paintings of flowers, still lifes and landscapes of the Southwest.Oldenburg, Claes – (1929-) Pop Artist note for everyday objects depicted in exaggerated scale.Picasso, Pablo-(1881-1973) Spanish artist known for painting, graphics,pottery and sculpture.Raphael, Sanzio- (1483-1520) Italian painter who most completely typifies the classical art of the High Renaissance.Rembrandt Van Rijn – (1606-1969) Dutch painter and engraver of historical landscapes, portraits, and genre pieces.Remington, Frederic- (1861-1909) An American painter and sculptor of the West.Ringgold, Faith – (1930-) African-American artist whose commitment to women, the family and cross-cultural consciousness is at the heart of her work.Rivera, Diego- (1886-1957) Mexican painter, Muralist, and graphic artist.A champion of the over-worked and underpaid, his work provides lasting statements on the social issues of his day.Rodin, Auguste’ – (1840-1917) French sculptor whose work combined both the realistic and the romantic characteristics of nineteenth-century France. He is often called the Father of Modern Sculpture.Rousseau, Henri – (1844-1910) French primitive painter whose sense of design, imagination, and exotic subjects gave his paintings a mysterious, magical quality. Seurat, Georges – (1859-1891) French painter most noted for development of pointillism.Springer, Melissia (1956-) Southern photographer noted for her photographs depicting her personal social commentary.Tanner, Henry Ossawa – (1859-1937) Often considered to be the most famous African- American painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Van Gogh, Vincent – (1853-1890) Dutch-born master of the post-Impressionist period in France. His use of strong color and bold shapes strongly influenced twentieth-century painting,Wood, Grant – (1892-1942) An American regionalist painter whose art memorialized the unique characteristics of rural, mid-western America.Wright, Frank Llyod – (1867-1959) American architect who extended the field of architecture to encompass Cubist theories.Wyeth, Andrew – (1917 -) American realist painter well known for his paintings of family, friends and neighbors. Other artist:Bellows, George (p. 494)Benton, Thomas Hart (p. 508)Demuth, Charles (p. 504)Durer, Albrecht (p. 314)Duchamp, Marcel (p. 469)Giacometti, Alberto (p. 475)Gehry, Frank O. (542)Goldsworthy, AndyGauguin, Paul (p.438)Hofmann, Hans(p.553)Hopper, Edward (p. 511)Kaglo, Freda (p. 463)Lange, Dorothea (p.488)Marin, John (p. 504)Marc, Franz (p. 458)Modigliani, Amedeo (p. 460)Motherwell, Robert (p. 553)Remington, Fredric (p. 513)Pollock, Jackson (p. 552)Rousult, Georges (p. 454)Stewart, DonSargent, John Singer (p. 496)Sheeler, Charles (p. 505)Sloan, John (p. 501)Stella, Joseph (p. 464)Sullivan, Louis (526)Tooker, George (p. 518) van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies (p. 524)Van Der Zee, James (484)